Rebeccas Table for Four Part 1: Wine Actually, 100 wines 100 moments

Shaun Lee, of Wine Actually got me during we am the strong believer in selling with the small bit of love, people and amicable media, & this debate is substantially usually the direct phenomenon of that when we opened & review his email final month. A organisation believer of the same principle, we was immediately supportive, & though we had to shelve my smarts for the way to share this wine, since we generally equivocate alcohol.

But we can go through ethanol in food; as well as desserts so this supposing the perfect event to launch the monthly cookout thought that myself & cook-aholic friend Kevin has been deliberating for months, though never got down to it.

Ill let the video discuss it the story, it pretty sums up the whole evening.

White wine: sponsored by WineActually.com.
Sometimes chef: Kevin Tan.

Lucky diners: Rebecca Saw, Tian Chad, Keith Chong.

Honestly the video is pretty bad. Well, we did the best we could. Do watch it in expanded form (click the bottom reduce right icon). It helps a lot.

Some pictures to save the day:

Tofu steamed with white wine

which was the Amuse Bouche.

The Butternut Pumpkin Risotto with white wine.

Pork tenderloin somewhat season upon the outside with pepper & herbs.

Which turned out beautifully pink & wet inside.

It was porky-licious with the caramelized onions & sauteed Dutch baby symbol mushrooms.

Slicing the pig tenderloin..

Dinner is served

Nom noms!

Table for Four.

Sangria for dessert:

Concept: (as supposing by Kevin)
g-RAPE-d tofu: Something that can showcase the endless make use of of grapes, whilst progressing the balance of flavors. Tofu can absorb any flavor, that functions well with the mixed grapes- based liquids of the dish.

Pumpkin risotto: Standa! rd risot to recipes have white booze as one of the ingredients, that was perfect to soak up the white booze into. The preference of pumpkin risotto additionally shows course from some-more grape (amuse bouche that used grapes juice & wine) to reduction grape (only booze in this dish) whilst progressing the profile of using the lot of furnish in the dish. Furthermore, the chicken stock that is generally personal as white stock gives the plate the hearty flavour, though not to overpower the white wine.

Pan-roasted Pork Loin: A white meat protein plate with some-more worldly flavors completed using the light herb crust, and the fungus ragout as the sauce. Kept the taste additive light as not to clash with the white wine, though rsther than to span with the dish.

It was the fun cooking . We hope to do this each month! Any suggestions for the subsequent Table for Four?

Note:

This is not the paid advertorial.
Objective is to assistance get the word out upon WineActually & to humour the friend.
All losses for the cooking is covered by Rebecca Saw except the bottle of white that was complimentary from WineActually.

PS: If we instruct to stick upon the subsequent Rebeccas Table for Four, dump me the comment & we might usually select we to stick upon us. This small plan is for fun & is based upon both Kevin & my availability.

I cooked: Bak kut teh (Chinese Pork Ribs Herbal Soup)

Bak kut teh literally definition "Meat Bone Tea", is a Chinese soup made of churned herb as well as artificial flavouring as well as opposite pig cuts. There have been countless forms of bak kut teh, however a a one preferred sort is a transparent soup sort with pig ribs. Dong quai (Chinese Angelica root or Angelica sinensis) is infrequently combined to create a stronger flavoured soup.

For those who would similar to to prepare your own bak kut teh during home though do not know what artificial flavouring as well as artificial flavouring to purchase to put in to a soup, then try a Eu Yan Sang Bak Kut Teh sachets. A multiple of Chinese normal artificial flavouring as well as artificial flavouring have been grounded in to an aromatic mix for your convenience. I have been regulating this product for a final 7-8 years as well as everytime, we have been rewarded with a delicious as well as aromatic soup. Pork ribs is a glorious cut of beef to make make make use of of of as it is lean as well as healthy, as well as after 2 hours of boiling, a beef falls off a skeleton simply as well as is intensely flavourful.
Rejuvenating herbal soup

Convenient EYS sachets for in progress bak kut teh during home

Bak Kut Teh (Pork Ribs Herbal Soup)Preparation time: less than 5 minutesCooking time: 2 1/2 to 3 hoursServes 4

Ingredients1 sachet of Eu Yan Sang Bak Kut Teh churned artificial flavouring as well as spices1kg - 1.2kg pig ribs, washed (You might make make make use of of of alternative pig cuts as desired)1 whole garlic15-20 shitake mushrooms, soaked5-6 slices of dong quai (optional)6-7 rice bowls of waterSoy salsa! or salt , to taste
1. Bring a H2O to bring to boil in a large pot. Add a Bak Kut Teh sachet, garlic as well as dong quai slices.

2. Add a pig ribs as well as cook upon low feverishness for 2 hours.
3. The shitake mushrooms should be combined 1 hour after a addition of a pig ribs. This is to ensure it soaks up a flavours as well as integrity from a soup.
4. Add soy salsa or salt to taste as well as cook for an additional thirty minutes upon medium heat.

5. Serve with boiled rice, stir fried unfeeling of your choice as well as a chilli/minced garlic dip.

A organisation favourite in a household

Available during all Eu Yan Sang outlets. Each box contains 12 sachets.

Note: If we prefer your soup with an even stronger flavour, then make make make use of of of 2 sachets of a churned artificial flavouring as well as spices.

Curl Up And Diet. Ogden Nash.

Poetry


Being on holidays meant which we have a lot of time. Transit Lounges have been a single of a many dull places in a world. Despite a most appropriate efforts of airlines to ply we with free alcohol as well as food as well as internet entrance as well as a strong coming of luxury, lounges sojourn a place of abject misery. Filled by earnest looking people, brimming with self importance, droning in monotony with a clarity of humour of a rhinoceros. Maybe it is a time section changes or perfect depletion plus a enterprise to arrive during my end without a benefit of a teleporter, i gait around as well as wish which a tiny hole in a latrine would be my saviour, a tiny crack in a time space continuum where i could yield in an arrive during my end in an instant. Anything to escape a excruciation of airline lounges as well as airports.

During a single of a sojourns, we begin to google for a communication of Ogden Nash. Often humorous, as well as with droll clarity of rhyme, it is always a collect me up. we found a tiny gem which we would similar to to share with we guys on a Saturday.



Curl Up as well as Diet

Some ladies fume as well most as well as a little ladies splash as well most as well as a little ladies pray as well much,
But all ladies consider which they import as well much.

They may be slim as a sylph or a dryad,
But usually let them on a scales as well as they embark on a woeful jerremiad;

No make a difference how low a figure needle happens to touch,
They always explain it is during least 5 pounds as well much;
No make a difference how emaciated to we a lady's structure of a body seemeth;
She describes herself as Leviathan or Behemoth;
To a universe she may appear slinky as well as feline,
But she inspects herself in a mirror as well as cries Oh, we demeanour similar to a sea ! lion;
Yes, she tells we she is growing into a shape of a sea cow or manatee,
And if we contend No, my dear, she says we have been usually fibbing to make her feel better, as well as if we contend Yes, my dear, we harm her vanity.

And in any case her eyes flow similar to faucets,
And she goes out as well as buys a little new caucets.

Once on a time there was a girl more pleasing as well as smart as well as desirable than tongue can tell,
And she is right away a dangerous raving maniac in a padded cell,
And a first denote her friends as well as relatives had which she was mentally overwrought
Was a single day when she said we import a hundred as well as twenty-seven, which is exactly what we ought.

Oh, often we am haunted
By a suspicion which somebody might a little day find a diet which would let ladies revoke usually as most as they wanted,
Because we consternation if there is a woman in a universe strong-minded enough to shed ten pounds or twenty,
And contend There now, That's plenty;
And we fear me a single ten-pound detriment would usually awaken a longing for another,
So it wouldn't do any great for ladies to get their ambition as well as demeanour similar to somebody's fourteen-year-old brother,
Because, having achieved this with ease,
They would next want to demeanour similar to somebody's fourteen-year-old hermit in a last stages of a little obscure disease,
And a more success we have a more we want to get of it,
So afterwards their idea would be to demeanour similar to somebody's fourteen-year-old brother's ghost, or rsther than not a spook itself, which is fairly solid, but a conformation of it,
So we consider it is really nice to be buoyant as well as lissome,
But not so most so which we cut yourself if we happen to welcome or kissome

- Ogden Nash

From http://blog.ogdennash.org/2008_05_01_archive.html